Blair confirms May 5 British election

LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair has confirmed that Britons will vote for a new government at a May 5 election and put his economic record at the heart of the campaign.

Blair told reporters outside his Downing Street home he would campaign "to take hard-won economic stability, the investment in our public services, and entrench it, to make it last for the future and never return to the economic risks and the failing public services of the past".

- REUTERS